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Best alternatives to Transcript for YouTube™ (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Transcript for YouTube™, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Transcript for YouTube™ today

≈40K users4.4★ from 570 ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago4 permissions

Transcript for YouTube™ alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Youtube to Transcript

    Get transcripts from youtube video, TXT/SRT/VTT export, AI summaries, translation, even no-caption

    ≈20K users4.6★ from 274 ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago5 permissions
    • About 2.0× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 4)
  2. 2

    Youtube Transcript

    Youtube Video Transcript and Video Summary: YouTube video to text transcript, YouTube summary with ChatGPT.

    ≈100K users4.7★ from 1.1K ratingsUpdated 5 months ago5 permissions
    • About 2.5× more users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 0.3 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 4)
    • Listed under Tools
  3. 3

    YouTube Transcript

    Effortlessly get youtube video transcript. Convert youtube video to text and generate transcript from youtube video in 100 languages

    ≈30K users4.8★ from 243 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago4 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 0.4 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Listed under Tools
  4. 4

    Transcript YouTube

    Use Transcript YouTube to download YouTube captions. Get YT transcript to transcribe youtube effortlessly

    ≈10K users3.3★ from 120 ratingsUpdated 7 months ago3 permissions
    • About 4.0× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 1.1 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 4)
  5. 5

    Transcript Helper for YouTube

    YouTube subtitle side panel: extract, translate, search, copy & export as txt/srt/vtt/md. Dark mode, font size, auto-scroll included

    ≈1K users5.0★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 8 weeks ago2 permissions
    • About 40× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 4)
    • Listed under Tools
  6. 6

    Copy Youtube Transcript

    Copy YouTube video transcripts with one click.

    ≈30K users4.4★ from 158 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago6 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Transcript for YouTube™
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 4)
    • Listed under Tools
  7. 7

    YouTube Transcription

    Use YouTube Transcription to transcribe video to text and effortlessly obtain a transcript of YouTube videos.

    ≈10K users3.3★ from 32 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions
    • About 4.0× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 1.1 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 4)
    • Listed under Tools
  8. 8

    YouTube Video Transcript

    Transcribe youtube videos to text with YouTube Video Transcript. Extract, download, and convert online video transcripts easily.

    ≈20K users4.8★ from 248 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago4 permissions
    • About 2.0× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 0.4 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
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    YouTube Transcript Generator

    Use this YouTube Transcript Generator tool as your transcriber and youtube to text converter. Transcribe video to transcript.

    ≈20K users4.9★ from 253 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago4 permissions
    • About 2.0× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 0.5 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
  10. 10

    Youtube Video Transcript Generator

    Use Youtube Video Transcript Generator to quickly transcribe Youtube video-to-text and summarize insights with transcript generator.

    ≈9K users4.9★ from 146 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago4 permissions
    • About 4.4× fewer users than Transcript for YouTube™
    • Rated 0.5 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Listed under Tools

Transcript for YouTube™ alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Transcript for YouTube™?

By users, the most popular alternative is Youtube Transcript with ≈100K users and a 4.7-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Youtube to Transcript.

Which Transcript for YouTube™ alternative has the best rating?

YouTube Transcript Generator has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 253 ratings.

Is there a Transcript for YouTube™ alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Transcript Helper for YouTube asks for 2 permissions, against 4 for Transcript for YouTube™.

How many alternatives to Transcript for YouTube™ are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Transcript for YouTube™ on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

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